HR: Human Remains story choices and routes
Community runs distinguish Obedient and Rebel routes. Compare the Archives file favor and hacking-tool delivery with a demonic upgrade route; the developer says you can have one upgrade at a time. Optional pickups have separate achievement goals.
HR: Human Remains branches around obeying the demonic regime or resisting it. When comparing routes, keep three decisions separate: your story choices, the hacking-tool favor and the demonic upgrade you currently have. A collectible or hidden Steam achievement is not itself a checklist for an ending.
Obeying and resisting
The official premise gives you work that keeps a survival ticket valid, with the option of trying to change the society from within. Finished-game discussions call their runs Obedient and Rebel. Those are useful community route labels when comparing a video or a report with your own choices.
Read the dialogue before committing to a request and note what you accepted. The developer's July progress update describes dedicated areas for different endings, so a different final area can be an outcome of the route rather than a missing ordinary room.
The Archives favor and hacking tool
The October community route describes a person speaking through a vent in the Archives. Their favor involves retrieving a file and sending it through the post office; later, a box delivered through the window contains a hacking tool instead of the expected demon upgrade.
That route identifies the requested file as J. Yrotcaf, at H-k4, and describes a red file without the usual photo/name inside. Match the request and file in your own task before posting it. This is a player-reported route detail, rather than a generic rule that every red file is the right one.
If you are following an upgrade-based guide and receive the hacking-tool box, compare this earlier favor. Do not assume a missing Arm, Eye or Leg means your save is broken.
Demonic upgrades are alternatives at a given time
In the October 4 upgrade discussion, the developer explains that the player can have one upgrade at a time. A proposed linear sequence in later comments is a player's suggestion, not an implemented progression order.
The city construction area has reported routes using the hacking tool and demonic upgrades. Another player's Eye route therefore does not establish that Eye is mandatory for reaching the cat or the construction figurine. Use the construction detour and the capabilities of your present route.
Chihu, Liberation and the final figurine
The community achievement route describes checking the server room over the course of the story until Chihu asks to be freed. It reports that Laila objects but does not stop the action. Treat the release interaction as its own story decision; the guide's author having Arm and Eye during the run does not establish an upgrade requirement for every player.
After the release, inspect the box that falls open in the server room. The developer identifies the figurine inside it as the last pickup for Collector. Liberation and collecting that figurine are separate tasks.
Before following a different ending route
- Compare the dialogue requests you accepted, particularly the Archives favor.
- Identify whether your current route provides a hacking tool or a demonic upgrade.
- Check whether an alternate city entrance suits that tool or upgrade.
- Separate the ending from optional phone, plushie and figurine achievements.
The walkthrough groups the story stops, and the collectible checklist gives all six figurine locations. These pages avoid turning optional pickups into invented ending prerequisites.
Sources
- Developer answers and the community achievement route, October 1–15, 2026.
- Developer's LiDAR directions, October 11.
- Developer's bait-weight explanation, October 18–19.
- Developer on upgrade choices, October 4.
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